[PD] unicode symbols and Pd

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em dom., 17 de jan. de 2021 às 20:09, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
escreveu:

> the only guaranteed font to be available on Windows and  Linux is "DejaVu
> Sans Mono" (and if the font-renderer weren't broken on  macOS, you could
> count on that font too). open the ttf-file with a font manager program and
> inspect it to see which glyphs it natively supports.

and it looks like it has (single) sharp and flat signs, but not double ones.
>

hmm, I'm looking at FontBook on DejaVu and I don't see sharp & flat signs.


> that doesn't actually sound perfect and ideal to me.
> fonts are generally large, and i would consider 𝄪 and 𝄫 to be edge
> cases.


yes, they are.


> i don't think i ever needed them; your use-case might of course be
> different


I was thinking of a database of scales, for didactical purposes, so G#
minor (parallel key of B Major) with an altered major 7th has F𝄪, for
instance.


> but i don't think we should target at satisfying each and  every usecase
> out of the box.
>

I was just thinking of all great possibilities we could have with a nice
set of musical symbol fonts, like displaying chords and being able to
design some simple notation things for chords and scales. More than double
sharp/flats, microtonal stuff like quarter tone would be also awesome. They
have that in open music.

Nonetheless, I guess one can try and design a GUI for that. But that'd be
way out of my league...

cheers
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